Our Plans / God’s Promises Proverbs 19:21 Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails. We spend much of our lives making plans. But the reality is we waste much of our lives trying to work those plans when we have failed to give them to the
Read MoreReflection for June 16, 2024
RECONCILIATION This is the first of four reflections on the general theme “Coming Close to God”. The four are a group which embody the process by which we can draw near to our Creator: Reconciliation, Redemption, Renewal and Resurrection. Reconciliation is the first step to resolve a conflicted relationship, correct estrangement or repair a...
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“FAITH AND THE MUSTARD SEED” Text: Matthew 13:31-32 17:14-211a. FAITH acrostic like GRACE= God’s Riches at Christ’s Expense, so FAITH = Forsaking All I Trust Him1b. Matthew 13:31-32… Christ uses the Mustard seed to describe the advance and growth of the Kingdom of God-Starting out small on the Day of Pentecost...
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CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH JUDE’S APPEAL AGAINST THE MISINTERPRETATION OF GRACE For a couple of years or more I have often used verse two of the book of Jude as a blessing or benediction. We do not usually find the verse used that way. Perhaps that is because Jude uses it as an opening to
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